Tara Marynowsky

b. 1979 Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia

Tara Marynowsky’s art practice embraces painting, drawing, collage, video and installation. She investigates the uncanny and uses wry humour to explore personal emotions and feelings associated with womanhood. With influences drawn from archival artefacts, European fables and art history her subjects are riddled with nostalgia and themes of cultural belonging and identity. She questions westernized beauty within this context. Working in a fragmented modus she often creates multiple works which when accumulated result in the form of an installation or series. Her work has an unmistakable hand-made aesthetic and she often uses watercolour to render her intimate works on paper.

In 2002 Marynowsky received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (honours) at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney. Her work has been exhibited in international group exhibitions including Hors Pistes at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2009) and Invitation on Paper at Chi Chi Potter Gallery, Copenhagen (2012). She has held several solo shows in Sydney and Melbourne and is currently undertaking an artist residency supported by the City of Sydney.

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Artworks

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Arrangements #6

Green Goddess #1

Green Goddess #2

Green Goddess #4

Volta #9

Volta #7

Volta #8

Volta #2

Volta #6

VOLTA

VOLTA #2

VOLTA #3

VOLTA #4

VOLTA #5

VOLTA #6

Volta

Arrangements #1

Arrangements #2

Arrangements #5

Untitled

Brain Rain

Brain Rain #2

Brain Rain #3

Brain Rain #4

Brain Rain #5

Brain Rain #6

Brain Rain #7

Brain Rain #8

Destinatarie

Rosen

Berlin

Venus Of Venus #3

Venus Of Venus #1

Venus Of Venus #2

Baba Yaga

Heads Up

Lonely Number

Chocky Void

Thousand Miles Eye

Godmonster

The Trees

Smoke Screen Mystery

'Missing Persons Jockey Club'

'Lady in Egg'

Tales

'Time After Time'

Tales #2

CV

Education

2002

Bachelor of Fine Arts, UNSW, College of Fine Arts, Sydney

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018

'Brain Rain', Chalk Horse, Sydney

'Balancing Act', Edwina Corlette gallery, Brisbane

2015

'Tide is High', Edwina Corlette gallery, Brisbane

'Brain Rain', Chalk Horse, Sydney

2014

'Venus of Venus', Chalk Horse, Sydney

'Open Studio', Art Month Sydney

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Selected Group Exhibitions

2019

Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Sydney

The National 2019: New Australian Art, Carriageworks, Sydney

'The New Gallery Show - Group Exhibition', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane

2018

Art Fair, Art Central Hong Kong, Chalk Horse, Stand E11

'Sauced Material', Goulburn Regional Art Gallery

'Flame Seed', Incinerator Art Space, Sydney

2017

'1717 Painting/not painting', Galerie pompom, Sydney

Group Show, Chalk Horse, Sydney

2016

'Rawhide with Abbey McCulloch', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane

2015

Alaska Studios Group Show, Alaska Projects, Sydney

'Mug Shot', Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, New South Wales

'Octopus15', Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne

Art Central Hong Kong (Art Fair), Chalk Horse Gallery, Hong Kong

'Lost and Profound', curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne

2014

'Sealed Section', curated by Miriam Kelly, Artbank, Sydney

'Beastly', Delmar Gallery, Sydney

'Sense of Surround', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane

Melbourne Art Fair, Chalk Horse, Melbourne

2013

'Still Life', Delmar Gallery, Sydney

'Rue de Belleville', Galerie Pom Pom, Sydney

'Rumble', Wellington St Projects, Sydney

Linden Postcard Prize, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne

2012

'Invitation on Paper', Chi Chi Potter Gallery, Copenhagen

'Still Life', Delmar Gallery, Sydney

2011

'Still Life', Delmar Gallery, Sydney

'Ten Degrees of Separation', Poimena Gallery, Tasmania

'Transcendental Freakout', Remote (online)

2010

The Shilo Project, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney

'Chalk Reindeer', Chalk Horse, Sydney

2009

'Chalk Reindeer', Chalk Horse, Sydney

'Post-flux', Maison des Auteurs asbl, Bussels

'Tara Marynowsky, Danny Morse & Tim Moore', Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney

'Hors Pistes', Pompidou Centre, Paris

'Hard Party', Sydney Harbour Art Cruise, Sydney

2008

'Chalk Reindeer', Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney

Helen Lempriere Travelling Arts Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney

'Great Whites & Tan Lines & Tales', Chalk Horse, Sydney

'Videoformes 2008', Clermont Ferrand

2007

Ecoutez les Zimages, Reunion, Pacific Ocean

'Panoramic Perturbations, "a little blah blah"', Ho Chi Minh City

International Festival of Video art of Casablanca, Casablanca

'Videoformes: Prix De La Creation Video', Clermont-Ferrand

Sin City Pompidou film program, ACMI, Melbourne

2006

SynCity, Presented by d/Lux media arts, Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney

'Video Easy', University Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand & The Hart Centre for the Arts, Beijing, China

The Harries National Digital Art Award, QUT Arts Museum, Brisbane

The Late Sessions: Video Art at the Movies, Greater Union Cinemas, Sydney

The Late Sessions, Melbourne Art Fair 2006, Project Room, Melbourne

Videoformes 2006: Projections Paralleles, Clermont Ferrand, France

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Grants / Awards / Residencies

2015

Marten Bequest Scholarship, Painting

2014

Artist In Residence, Wis(c)h, Supported by City of Sydney

2012

Linden Postcard Prize (2nd)

2011

Best Sydney Artist Award, FBi Radio, Sydney (Nomination)

2010

Fraser Studios Artist Residency, Queen Street Studios, Sydney

Rising Star Award, Cosmopolitan Fun Fearless Female Awards (Nomination)

2008

Helen Lempriere Travelling Arts Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney (Finalist)

2006

Australia Council Inter-Arts grant, RUN_WAY

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Collections

Art Bank

Freshwater Place

Private Collections

Bibliography

2019

Naomi Riddle, Artist text for ‘Coming Attractions’, The National 2019: New Australian Art, catalogue, 2019

Andrew Frost, The National 2019 Review: Contemporary Art from the Uncanny to the Inviting, The Guardian, March 29, 2019

Anna Dunhill, Monstrous Feminine, Art Guide, April 2, 2019

Will Cox, The National: Five Artists to Watch, Broadsheet, 01 March, 2019

2015

Preview, Tracey Clement, Art Guide Australia, 26 November

Editor’s Pick 6til8, Art Collector Magazine, Tide is High: Tara Marynowsky, January

Daniel Mudi Cunningham, Art Collector Magazine, Collector’s Love: Tara Marynowsky, January

2014

Andrew Frost, The Art Life: Venus of Venus, 16 May

Frost, Andrew, Venus of Venus, the art life, May 16, 2014

2013

Tara Marynowsky, Juxtapoz Magazine (online), April 2013 (artwork)

Interview with Tara Marynowsky, Women Artists: The Interview Zine, (New York), Feb 2013

2012

Please! Magazine (France), Birthday Issue, curated by Leslie David, June 2012 (commissioned artwork)

2011

Fbi Radio Interview, Canvas, Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:28 PM

Tara Marynowsky, Helter Skelter Runway Magazine: Issue 17 Return, 2010 (commissioned artwork)

2010

Frost, Andrew, Ten Rising Visionaries Make Their Mark: Next Big Things, Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 8-14, 2010

Fulton, Adam, Neil Diamond Tribute not such a dotty idea, Sydney Morning Herald, July 2, 2010

Commissioned Artwork, ‘Helter Skelter’, Runway Magazine, Issue 17

Stein, Millie, Gods and Monsters, The Blackmail, July 2010

2008

Frost, Andrew, Smart Art, Australian Art Collector, Issue 45 July-September, 2008

Tovey, Josephine, Open Gallery, The Sydney Morning Herald, April 19-20 2008

Jasper, Adam, MOP vs. Chalk Horse, Time Out Sydney, April 23-29, 2008

2007

Frost, Andrew, Screen Tests, The Sydney Morning Herald, November 24, 2007

2006

Frost, Andrew, Intelligent Dolphins: From Metaphysical TV to Remix Culture, SynCity Catalogue & DVD, d/Lux Media Arts, 2006

Lewis, Clare, The Late Sessions, Artlink, Vol 26, No 2, 2006

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Tara Marynowsky

Artworks

CV

VOLTA

Group show

Brain Rain

Melbourne Art Fair 2014 - Stand: E101

Venus Of Venus

Gods and Monsters

Tara Marynowsky & Tim Moore & Danny Morse

Chalk Reindeer 2008

Great Whites & Tan Lines